As OPR activity surges, a new wave of Poke Stop and Gym changes is expected

our Ingress regular, Rdash123 (LVL 16), notified us that Operation Portal Recon stats are growing at a stunning rate. According to the official OPR stats page, the usage and submission resolution rate is growing dramatically, following the recent Ingress portal submissions reopening!

However, the numbers are still bottle necked by Niantic’s semi-manual verification/sorting process for new portal submissions.

For the uninitiated, OPR (Operation Portal Recon) is Niantic’s crowd-sourced tool to verify, approve and deny Ingress portal submissions. Pokemon GO’s world data is constructed from Ingress portals, with the data set being refreshed almost daily. This data consists of Poke Stops, Gyms, spawn points and nests. A lot of Ingress portals and clusters of XM energy become a thing in Pokemon GO.

As illustrated in the title image and below, the growth rate is pretty incredible. Be aware that there is still seven hours until today’s score resets, which means the numbers are going to be even higher:

OPR Activity grows

Raw data:

DATE

ENL

RES

09/20

23164

19302

09/21

21651

18674

09/22

19326

16934

09/23

14920

14840

09/24

16245

14932

09/25

25963

23846

09/26

49044

47697

09/27

55385

52813

Niantic’s community manager Andrew Krug recently clarified that the relationship is not 1:1 – not everything in Ingress becomes something in Pokemon GO. However, a significant portion of the data does get transfered.

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